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"You've got your back to the window, so you're kind of screwed," Bradley Cooper said. Cooper was scanning the room from a high-backed chair, his eyes tracking the waiter carrying his breakfast, the guy in the hoodie tapping away on a laptop near the door, the "at risk" reporter staring back at him. Assessing the potential threats in a space — even in a Tribeca luxury hotel on a sleepy December morning with horizontal rain — was a habit Cooper had picked up while making "American Sniper." "After that, you're more aware of everything," he said of the experience of crawling inside the mind of the military's...

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